Attention as a Spiritual Discipline in the Digital Age
Two weeks off. One 700-page book I'd been wanting to read for years. I finished 40 pages. The rest? Scrolling. Shorts. Fragments of nothing. The desert monks called this acedia, not laziness, but a restless inability to stay present. They stared out windows hoping for interruption. We have something worse: an algorithm that learns exactly what captures us, not what deserves us.
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